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Natural Organics Removal Using Membranes: Principles, Performance, and Cost
by Andrea SchaferNatural Organics Removal Using Membranes: Principles, Performance, and Cost provides a unique combination of important new data and operational parameters on the role of membranes in removing natural organic materials during water treatment. It examines and compares the three pressure-driven membrane processes of choice-ultrafiltration, microfiltra
Advances In Animal Alternatives For Safety And Efficacy Testing
by Sidney A. Katz Harry SalemPresents up-to-date concepts and approaches to the theory and practice of alternatives to animal testing and promotes technology transfer. The text addresses some of the ramifications of the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993 which instructs the NIH to fund replacement, reduction and refinement alternatives. It also describes
The Science and Technology of Industrial Water Treatment
by Zahid AmjadMineral scale deposits, corrosion, suspended matter, and microbiological growth are factors that must be controlled in industrial water systems. Research on understanding the mechanisms of these problems has attracted considerable attention in the past three decades as has progress concerning water treatment additives to ameliorate these concerns.
Statistical Studies of Income, Poverty and Inequality in Europe: Computing and Graphics in R using EU-SILC (Chapman & Hall/CRC Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences)
by Nicholas T. LongfordThere is no shortage of incentives to study and reduce poverty in our societies. Poverty is studied in economics and political sciences, and population surveys are an important source of information about it. The design and analysis of such surveys is principally a statistical subject matter and the computer is essential for their data compilation
Operations in Food Refrigeration (Contemporary Food Engineering)
by Rodolfo H. MascheroniThe final quality of a food product is impacted heavily by preservation technologies, such as chilling, freezing, and freeze-drying, as well as the numerous pretreatments that are routinely applied to foods. Adequate design and implementation of each of these treatments are critical to ensuring the integrity of the final food product, the productiv
Physics of Thermal Therapy: Fundamentals and Clinical Applications (Imaging in Medical Diagnosis and Therapy)
by Eduardo G. MorosThe field of thermal therapy has been growing tenaciously in the last few decades. The application of heat to living tissues, from mild hyperthermia to high-temperature thermal ablation, has produced a host of well-documented genetic, cellular, and physiological responses that are being researched intensely for medical applications, particularly fo
Surfactants in Tribology, Volume 1
by K. L. Mittal Girma BiresawSurfactants play a variety of critical roles in tribology. In addition to controlling friction and wear, they also allow for control of a wide range of properties of lubricants, such as emulsification/demulsification, bioresistance, oxidation resistance, and rust/corrosion prevention. This book explains recent advances in the role of surfactants wi
Mercury Pollution: A Transdisciplinary Treatment
by Sharon L. Zuber Michael C. NewmanCRCHow does mercury get out of the ground and into our food? Is tuna safe to eat? What was the Minamata Disaster? Mercury Pollution: A Transdisciplinary Treatment addresses these questions and more. The editors weave interdisciplinary threads into a tapestry that presents a more complete picture of the effects of mercury pollution and provides new way
Advances in Chromatography, Volume 52 (Advances in Chromatography)
by Nelu Grinberg Eli GrushkaPresenting the latest developments in the field for more than four decades, the Advances in Chromatography series is relied on by scientists and researchers for the most up-to-date information on a wide range of chromatographic methods and applications. Volume 52 continues this tradition with contributions by established, well-known chemists, offer
Advances in Chromatography: Volume 48 (Advances in Chromatography)
by Nelu Grinberg Eli GrushkaFor more than four decades, scientists and researchers have relied on the Advances in Chromatography Series for the most up-to-date information on a wide range of developments in chromatographic methods and applications. With contributions from an array of international experts, the latest volume captures new developments in this important field th
Electrochemical Sensors in Bioanalysis
by Raluca-Ioana Stefan"Covers the most recent methods and materials for the construction, validation, analysis, and design of electrochemical sensors for bioanalytical, clinical, and pharmaceutical applications--emphasizing the latest classes of enantioselective electrochemical sensors as well as electrochemical sensors for in vivo and in vitro diagnosis, for DNA assay
Microstructure of Smectite Clays and Engineering Performance
by Raymond N. Yong Roland PuschCertain wastes such as nuclear wastes, are so hazardous that their disposal creates a major challenge requiring considerable technical skill and understanding. Their effective isolation in the ground depends on the properties of the surrounding clays. This authoritative book explains the detailed function of clay-based engineered barriers, gives a
Automated EEG-Based Diagnosis of Neurological Disorders: Inventing the Future of Neurology
by Hojjat Adeli Samanwoy Ghosh-DastidarBased on the authors' groundbreaking research, Automated EEG-Based Diagnosis of Neurological Disorders: Inventing the Future of Neurology presents a research ideology, a novel multi-paradigm methodology, and advanced computational models for the automated EEG-based diagnosis of neurological disorders. It is based on the ingenious integration of thr
Gemini Surfactants: Synthesis, Interfacial and Solution-Phase Behavior, and Applications (Surfactant Science)
by Raoul Zana Jiding XiaGenerating much interest in both academic and scientific circles, Gemini Surfactants gathers the most up-to-date research in gemini surfactantproduction and demonstrates how their propertiesand performance can revolutionize the current industrial application of these surfactants. It surveys the state of special gemini surfactants, inc
Scientific Computing with Multicore and Accelerators (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science)
by Jack Dongarra David A. Bader Jakub KurzakThe hybrid/heterogeneous nature of future microprocessors and large high-performance computing systems will result in a reliance on two major types of components: multicore/manycore central processing units and special purpose hardware/massively parallel accelerators. While these technologies have numerous benefits, they also pose substantial perfo
Electron Microscopy and Analysis 2001 (Institute of Physics Conference Series)
by M Aindow C J KielyElectron microscopy is now a mainstay characterization tool for solid state physicists and chemists as well as materials scientists. Electron Microscopy and Analysis 2001 presents a useful snapshot of the latest developments in instrumentation, analysis techniques, and applications of electron and scanning probe microscopies. The book is ideal for
Molecular Modeling in Heavy Hydrocarbon Conversions (Chemical Industries)
by Michael T. Klein Gang Hou Ralph Bertolacini Linda J. Broadbelt Ankush KumarIn the past two decades, new modeling efforts have gradually incorporated more molecular and structural detail in response to environmental and technical interests. Molecular Modeling in Heavy Hydrocarbon Conversions introduces a systematic molecule-based modeling approach with a system of chemical engineering software tools that can automate the e
Image Processing in Radiation Therapy (Imaging in Medical Diagnosis and Therapy)
by Kristy K. BrockImages from CT, MRI, PET, and other medical instrumentation have become central to the radiotherapy process in the past two decades, thus requiring medical physicists, clinicians, dosimetrists, radiation therapists, and trainees to integrate and segment these images efficiently and accurately in a clinical environment. Image Processing in Radiation
Mass Spectrometry-Based Metabolomics: A Practical Guide
by Sastia Prama Putri Eiichiro FukusakiMass Spectrometry-Based Metabolomics: A Practical Guide is a simple, step-by-step reference for profiling metabolites in a target organism. It discusses optimization of sample preparation for urine, serum, blood, tissue, food, and plant and animal cell samples. Encompassing three different technical fields-biology, analytical chemistry, and informa
Thermal Imaging Cameras: Characteristics and Performance
by Thomas WilliamsThe ability to see through smoke and mist and the ability to use the variances in temperature to differentiate between targets and their backgrounds are invaluable in military applications and have become major motivators for the further development of thermal imagers. As the potential of thermal imaging is more clearly understood and the cost decr
Science In The Making: 1850-1900
by E. A. DavisVolume Two of the Science in the Making Series covers the scientific advancements of the day between 1850 and 1900 as reported in the Philosophical Magazine. This period culminated with the discovery of the electron, Xrays and radioactivity. This beautifully produced volume contains facsimiles of original papers by eminent scientists including Kelv
Context-Aware Computing and Self-Managing Systems
by Waltenegus DargieBringing together an extensively researched area with an emerging research issue, Context-Aware Computing and Self-Managing Systems presents the core contributions of context-aware computing in the development of self-managing systems, including devices, applications, middleware, and networks. The expert contributors reveal the usefulness of contex
Conscious Mind in the Physical World
by E.J SquiresWe have seen remarkable progress in our detailed understanding of the physical world, from the smallest constituents of atoms to the remotest distances seen by telescopes. However, we have yet to explore the phenomenon of consciousness. Can physical things be conscious or is consciousness something else, forever outside the range of physics? And ho
Rare Earth Elements in Ultramafic and Mafic Rocks and their Minerals: Main types of rocks. Rock-forming minerals
by Felix P. LesnovThis book gives an overview of the world�s literature on analytical data and theoretical concepts of the regularities of rare earth elements (REE) in ultramafic and mafic rocks of different chemical and mineral compositions � mantle restites (including those composing mantle xenoliths in alkali basaltoids), highly magnesium hypabyssal roc
Handbook of Media for Clinical and Public Health Microbiology
by Ronald M. Atlas James W. SnyderThe detection and/or isolation and identification of pathogenic microorganisms is critical for the laboratory diagnosis of infectious diseases. With growth-dependant methods providing reliable means for identifying pathogens, traditional culturing continues to play an integral role in the detection and characterization of known and "new" microbial